Will Simena switch Parties

[edhopper]

if the GOP takes the Senate in November? It looks like she is leaning that way. The way she is cozying up to Mitch, she gets more power in the majority.
She is sure to be primaried in 2024, she might think she has a better shot as a sitting Republican Senator.
Pure speculation on my part.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Good question! The way she acts, it's only natural to wonder!

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Shaking my Tulsi Gabbard Magic Ball. . . HELL YES!

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[RKP5637]

2. She'll go after where the most money is ... IMO. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

21. Yes. She is a parasite.

She's much like Lindsey Graham, who latches onto powerful people. Kyrsten latches onto whoever will make her money

[edhopper]

30. This is true.

[CatWoman]

3. I'm listening to Olbermann's podcast right now

EPISODE 41: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN 9.27.22
KYRSTEN SINEMA SHOULD RESIGN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: I do not know how or why Senator Sinema of Arizona can still identify as a Democrat after appearing with Mitch McConnell at an event that was for all intents and purposes a Republican Campaign Rally for the mid-terms. Sinema praised McConnell for his "respect for the Senate" even though it was McConnell who made up a rule that denied Merrick Garland even a hearing for the Supreme Court and stole the seat for the Republicans. She blamed everybody BUT the Republicans for politics becoming "radicalized, spiraling steadily downward into bitter and tribal extremism" and never mentioned January 6th. She forecast a Democratic defeat in November. (9:53) I explain my personal relationship with Kyrsten Sinema, first as a friend, then in a brief dating relationship, then again as a friend, spanning nearly eight years, and her deterioration from as liberal and progressive a person as I've ever met to a clown who has fallen for Mitch McConnell's act. She should resign from the Senate - Arizona's governor would be required by law to name a Democratic replacement - and take her deliberate unwillingness to recognize the threat to democracy posed by the Republicans, and utilize it either to challenge Tulsi Gabbard for the role OF Tulsi Gabbard, or go host "Meet The Press."

https://link.chtbl.com/countdownwithkeitholbermann

[JohnSJ]

6. Olbermann should have enough common sense to realize that we need her right now until we can get

the Senate by at least a two seat majority.

At this stage this talk is nonesense, and our prime focus should be the midterms, and winning enough seats in both Houses so we don't need her

[Doc Sportello]

8. "Arizona's governor would be required by law to name a Democratic replacement"

Maybe you overlooked that part. If she resigned a Democrat - by law - would be appointed. So obviously he is aware of the Senate numbers.

[JohnSJ]

32. No I didn't. Regardless of what the polls may say, no one knows what the midterms hold, but most

importantly, she isn’t going to resign, and we shouldn’t be trying to push her out right before the midterms

[empedocles]

7. Sinema's behavior might be explained by deep personality issues and needs.

A need to show her 'independence' with surges of rebellliousness.

' . . . The senior senator from Arizona — the first woman to represent Arizona in the Senate, the first Democrat elected to that body from that state since 1995, and the first openly bisexual senator — has never hidden her identity as a maverick. In fact, she’s advertised it. Pretty much every day. . . '

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/style/kyrsten-sinema-style.html

[Voltaire2]

14. Or by take the money and run syndrome.

[empedocles]

25. . . . and, or

[asiliveandbreathe]

28. Need to catch up with Countdown w/KO..last night listened to Mea Culpa with

Michael Cohen..his guest David Enrich, who wrote Servants of the Damned..talk about how Jones Day Law firm has represented the Walton fam...as they distributed drugs across America..filled our judicial branch of govt with sycophants..etc etc..a real eye opener..astonishing -

Rachel had Enrich on couple weeks ago..but not as in depth as this episode of Mea Culpa..truly jaw dropping..

[CatWoman]

40. i take it MC has a podcast?

got a link?

[asiliveandbreathe]

42. I get my podcast at spotify..but you can try this link..w/o subscription

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen/id1530639447

I was able to hit play at link..the podcast from sept. 25th...

I have been trying to get this story about Jones Day out of my head today ..I fear for our judicial system..ONE firm has been reeking havoc

Another link..with review of Servants of the Damned..

https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780063142176/servants-of-the-damned/

Delivering a "devastating" (Carol Leonnig) exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun companies, big tobacco, Russian oligarchs, Fox News, the Catholic Church, and much of the Fortune 500; helped Donald Trump get elected, govern, and evade investigation; masterminded the conservative remaking of the courts . . . and make a killing along the way

[CatWoman]

44. ty

[Johonny]

4. I don't think they will take the senate

I assume she will continue to be a Rand Paul style attention seeker that screws their own party.

She probably has a better chance to win a primary if the GOP win the senate as then she can argue how valuable her seat is and all the attention will be on hating the GOP majority.

[empedocles]

9. Sinema could just see what way the winds & currents are moving in relation

to her own boat, - and make her decision at the most advantageous time.

[Big Blue Marble]

5. Or maybe McConnell is courting her

to help preserve the filibuster if the Dems keep the Senate.

[we can do it]

10. Who cares, everybody, even repukes hate her.

[themaguffin]

11. She would lose a GQP primary too.

[RainCaster]

13. She already has

Her actions show a RWNJ voting record. DINO

[Demsrule86]

29. No she hasn't she caucuses with us or Biden would get no judges.

My hope is that she doesn't move to GOP as having her warm body helps us regardless of how she votes. We should be able to elect a new Senator in 24.

[Demsrule86]

15. We are likely to get enough seats where she won't matter.

Everyone hates her so her career is pretty much over.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. She could not win a 2024 GOP primary

So, she won’t switch parties unless she plans to end her senate career in 2024.

Regardless, her senate career will end in 2024.

[Walleye]

17. But then she wouldn't be "special" anymore

[Mad_Machine76]

33. And neither will Manchin

but he seems less likely to switch. I don't trust Sinema as far as I can throw her.

[LiberalFighter]

18. If Republicans take control. I don't see it happening.

[ElementaryPenguin]

19. You mean there's a chance she could become a Democrat?

[jcgoldie]

20. ...

[Emile]

22. Follow the money!

[BradAllison]

23. Don't worry

They'll be people here yelling "Go Girlboss!!!!" either way.

[karynnj]

24. I do not know which party she could do better in the primaries

In the Republican party, her past in the green and the Democratic party will be held against her. It also looks like the Arizona Republican party is more than half VERY RW given the winners of this year's Republican party. I don't think the Republicans will keep her even if McConnell were to promise her he would support her. (On our side remember Senator Spector?)

However, she is currently very unpopular among Democrats - and not just the liberals and progressives like us! I would bet that in the 2 years before her election she might be able to fix that if she were seen as less of a flake and more supportive of Democratic issues.

[Mad_Machine76]

34. As noted yesterday

she seems to currently be unpopular with everybody right now. She could wind up in a party of one.

[Irish_Dem]

26. I doubt it. Why would the GOP trust a turncoat?

She would face the loss of attention she craves.
And loss of her bribe revenue.

[tinrobot]

27. She voted for the Inflation Reduction Act when no Republicans did.

So, she's still ever-so-slightly on our side.

I think she's doing it as a power play. She sees how much attention it gets her with a split Senate, so she teases both Mitch and the Democrats. If she switched parties, she'd immediately go to the bottom of the GOP pile.

[JustAnotherGen]

31. There's just something not right with her

JMHO - I'm a nobody.

But she's very disconcerting.

[Mad_Machine76]

35. Somebody on Twitter yesterday

was talking about her being an ex-Mormon and how that might be affecting her current behavior. Don't know how much stock to put into that but it's a theory.

[JustAnotherGen]

37. I did not know that

That she was LDS. Eh? I've known plenty of Mormons in my life - but it's not that.

She's off. There's something about her personality and 'all over the place' that disturbs me.

If I have to think of another politician that rubs me the same way? Marsha Blackburn.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

36. I would be very surprised.

I think people greatly underestimate the gulf between even the most moderate Dems and GOP. Sinema voted for every major piece of Biden legislation, all of Biden's judges, and voted to convict Trump twice in impeachment trials. No GOP senator comes anywhere close to that.

Yes, she and Manchin can be very aggravating to deal with. But they are far from being Republican. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have far more conservative records than them.

[Tickle]

38. I'm more worried about Manchin

becoming an independent and voting with repubs than I am with Simena becoming a republican. supposedly he won't vote to fund the government unless he can attach his bill to it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/25/joe-manchin-big-oil-side-spending-deal-democrats/

[Mr. Sparkle]

39. Will ? She already has

She loves that republican donor money

[Johnny2X2X]

41. No

She would have by now.

She's a reliable vote for some of Biden's agenda, and all of his judges.

[Vinca]

43. From the sounds of it, she's all but "doing" McConnell, so I'd guess it would be yes.